Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson is known as the father of the Romanesque Revival style of architecture, so much so that the term Richardson Romanesque is synonymous with the more correct term ...

Henry Hobson Richardson died of Bright’s disease on April 27, 1886, two years after the first steel frame building had been erected in Chicago. Unlike his admirer, the late Louis Sullivan (TIME, Dec.

IT is recognized that since the beginning of this century architecture has not kept pace with the general advance of the other arts of civilization. Science has made steady progress all along the line ...

They look like dark-red fortresses, impenetrable and forboding. Houses and commercial buildings built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style are easily identified by their massive appearance.

Many tourists are brought to our area because of the striking Sandstone Richardson Romanesque Architecture that graces our community. Sandstone was first mined at Elm Creek and up Calico Canyon near ...